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P.192. Fragmentary ?ephebic texts

Description: Fragment, broken on all sides, from a sandstone block (w: 0.12 x h: 0.30 x d: 0.14).
Text: Inscribed on one face, probably in two different hands.
Letters: 0.06

Date: First century BCE to first century CE

Findspot: Ptolemais: Late Baths, Frigidarium (room 6), in the fill along the north side; found in 1957.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
(ἔτους) ιε´ [---]
ii
[---]Ε̣ΡΡ̣[---]

Diplomatic

i
L ΙΕ[---]
ii
[---].Ρ.[---]

English translation

Translation by: Editors

(i): Year 15 [ . . .

(ii): not usefully translatable

Commentary

One of the many fragments of ephebic texts found in the baths, P.178 to P.198.

Bibliography: Kraeling, 1962, 39.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. From left: P.192, P.193 (1957, The Oriental Institute - Chicago, 48763)